Telecommander media group

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Telecommander media group
Mediengruppe Telekommander at the Donauinselfest 2006 in Vienna on June 25, 2006
Mediengruppe Telekommander at the Donauinselfest 2006 in Vienna on June 25, 2006
General information
Genre (s) Electropunk , alternative hip-hop ,
indie rock
founding 2001
resolution 2012
Last occupation
Gerald Mandl
Guitar , vocals
 Florian Zwietnig
Mediengruppe Telekommander at the Juicy Beats Festival 2006 in Dortmund on July 29, 2006

The media group Telekommander was a musician duo founded in 2001, consisting of Florian Zwietnig and Gerald Mandl. Their music was a mixture of electropunk , indie rock and hip hop with often socially critical lyrics. In February 2012 they played their farewell concert in Berlin .

Band members

Florian Zwietnig

Florian Zwietnig, born in 1974, was born in Munich , grew up in Germering near Munich and later studied psychology . In the early 1990s he played in the Germeringer avant-garde band Projekt Paul together with Peter Brugger from the rock group Sportfreunde Stiller . Until the end of 2002 he was still working as a concept developer and usability consultant in an internet agency. Musically, he is responsible for guitar and vocals for the duo.

Gerald Mandl

Gerald Mandl was born in Austria and grew up in Hallein in the state of Salzburg. After dropping out of communication and literature studies, he attended the course at the Electroacoustic Institute in Vienna. He plays the electric bass and sings.

history

Mandl and Zwietnig met in 1998 on a train ride from Berlin to Salzburg and decided to make music together. At first they spent some time together in Berlin, but in 2000 they lived in different cities again, one in Vienna , the other in Berlin. There are some works in addition to the study of short films and video installations .

The idea of ​​the “Mediengruppe Telekommander” came up for the first time, with the aim of incorporating a wide variety of artists, concepts and techniques. After the great success of “Women are better” they decided to produce more pieces and to realize the media group as a live band. This was followed by close collaboration with the producer Christian Harder, who comes from Ladbergen ( Tecklenburger Land near Osnabrück ) and who works in Hamburg. Ella Hering also took care of all the graphic design and the photos of Florian Zwietnig's former schoolmate Daniel Flaschar. In December 2002 the first EP with five songs was released on the Hamburg indie label Enduro. After the first live appearances, the second EP followed in September 2003. During this time they became known through many MP3 downloads and a no-budget video command , which was brought closer to a wider audience , especially through the Viva program Fast Forward .

In November 2003 they began producing their first album, The Whole Power of a Culture , which was released in May 2004 on Mute Records as a CD and on Enduro as a vinyl record . After a final concert in Berlin's Palast der Republik, Florian and Gerald took a break in 2005 to work with Moses Schneider and Ben Lauber as well as Andreas Herbig and Gerhard Potuznik (mix) on the new album Closer to People , which was released on May 5, 2006 Mute appeared. In the same year, the Telekommander media group and Deichkind took part in the Love Parade with their own car .

In January 2009 the single Endlosrille was released , in June 2009 the single One must go in the lead .

At the turn of the year 2011/2012 the band broke up. In August 2011 the last album The Elite of Charity was released . On October 29, 2011 they gave a farewell concert in Hamburg and on November 5 as part of the “great n8musik” festival in Salzburg . The farewell concert in Austria took place on January 21, 2012 in Vienna at the FM4 birthday party. The last concert was given on February 3rd, 2012 in the Festsaal Kreuzberg in Berlin.

Discography

  • Women Are Better (first track) (2001)
  • First EP (2002)
  • Second EP (2003)
  • All the Power of a Culture (debut album) (2004)
  • Scream Till Vomit (single) (12 "vinyl) (2004)
  • Explosive Devices (Single) (2006)
  • Closer to People (2006)
  • Mediengruppe Telekommander - Live in Munich on April 23, 2006 ( Bavarian Open Sessions ) (2006)
  • Endlosrille (Single) (2009)
  • One Must Take the Lead (Single) (2009)
  • One Must Take the Lead (album) (2009)
  • Your School (Single) (2011)
  • The Elite of Charity (album) (2011)
  • Cheap (Single) (2011)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Love Parade: Muckibude on the go on zeit.de